Attn Ubisoft Montreal

[Miasma]

Huh?

I just meant the articles unsub is reading are in error.

[Azazel]

What's funny is apparently the lady whose entire journalistic career was founded on doing things with a Rez Trance Vibrator has spoken out in whatsherface's defense.
OOokay!

who?

[Velorath]

What's funny is apparently the lady whose entire journalistic career was founded on doing things with a Rez Trance Vibrator has spoken out in whatsherface's defense.
OOokay!

who?

Jane Pinckard.

[geldonyetich2]

Apparently we have two threads on this now, albeit this being the more obscure one.

I'm honestly not sure what the deal with Jade is.  If it turns out she really is a booth girl whose Creative Director title is a total sham, she deserves that comic and more.  However, if she actually has contributed to shaping Assassin's Creed, and it's a good game that benefited from her creative vision, then I can only wish flaming gonorrhea on anyone that would slander a good game designer just because they're female and not bad to look at.

[schild]

She's not a designer, she doesn't programmer, and afaik has no artistic talent (unless you count a sweet ass as artistic talent).

She's a producer.

[Phildo]

And anyway, why is SHE the problem if she's just a pretty face the company slapped on the game?  Shouldn't Ubisoft itself be the target of ridicule instead of the pretty girl who was offered a sweet load of cash to be pretty and talk about games?

[schild]

Phil, your description makes her sound like a whore.

[Phildo]

A whore is just a woman who sleeps with men for money so she can afford to take care of her children.  Or her drug habit.  Either way, there is nothing wrong with whores.

[stray]

She's a producer with some programming experience. She worked for Sony as a lowbie developer before she ever became a producer (for EA, then Ubi). At the very least, she's got a CS degree and isn't completely ignorant. She's hot, but not booth babe material.

There's a hotter producer chick working for Microsoft. Big deal.

[Jain Zar]

I think the problem is putting her out in front like she is Miyamoto, or Cliffy B (snicker), or Sid Meier, or Dickie British when its clear its mostly just OOH LOOK PRETTY GIRL IN GAMES marketing.  A producer isn't all that.  (Warren Spector's contributions as a producer being the notable exception.)  Everyone else who busted their ass on the game for good or ill doesn't seem to matter.  Just one rather attractive lady.

Some people have reacted negatively to dumb pandering advertising.  The Internet, while full of stupid, also has enough monkeys at enough keyboards to see through bullshit from time to time, and being able to see through usually means having lots of free time and limited social skills, and thus meanspirited (but funny!) things like this comic o controversy come to life.

And like most instances of butthurt online prove, fighting minor slights just let EVERYONE know about it.  As a kid who was picked on in school and now understands this, its not the abuse that is the reason or the desired outcome.  Its the (admittedly understandable) reactions that provide the real amusement.  Its why so many people bash furries.  Their reactions and outrage provide most of the reason for the continued abuse.  (Not that they aren't   in their interests mind you..)

I and most people who waste time on the Net would have never seen nor heard (or honestly cared) of this little comic that takes about 30 seconds to read, chuckle, then normally disregard if Ubisoft hadn't pulled out the lawyers and started crying about it.

In doing so they all but asked YTMND, Fark, Ebaums, SA, 4Chan, and any other place where memes and meanspirited humor is popular to spread this across the land like a death pod that comes from the sky.

[HaemishM]

I and most people who waste time on the Net would have never seen nor heard (or honestly cared) of this little comic that takes about 30 seconds to read, chuckle, then normally disregard if Ubisoft hadn't pulled out the lawyers and started crying about it.

I didn't hear about it until the two threads on here. Having seen the comic, I can see her being offended by it. The cease-and-desist shit, though? That was epic stupid, and guaranteed to make what was really a small issue a whole fuckload worse. The Internet hates a crybaby as much as they love torturing a crybaby with bruised labia.

[caladein]

What's funny is apparently the lady whose entire journalistic career was founded on doing things with a Rez Trance Vibrator has spoken out in whatsherface's defense.

Poisoning the well and you.

Jane's post on GGA seems to let Ubisoft (and the press) basically off the hook because they're just using Jade for her good looks to drive sales (and/or traffic). You can't blame "men" as a whole for what's honestly a funny critique of Ubisoft's marketing campaign, this isn't fucking Nuremberg, it's a comic.

The thing that drives me crazy about all this (more so from GGA than the article linked in the other thread, the URL is "Femsite.us" what are we to expect?) is that how one can make statements like these within miles of each other:

But on the other hand, I'm eviscerated by the notion that we can't celebrate women's achievements in the game industry without encountering this sort of resistance, fueled also in part by a rabid fanbase that was as quick to idolize Jade's image as it was to tear her apart. And naturally as someone working on something she believed in she would want to stand up and be proud of her accomplishments. The price of fame is a pound of flesh.

When you just said a few paragraphs up...

And it's all nastily tied up with sexism, with the nature of celebrity, the cowardly losers on the internet, and exploitative marketing practices that have always sold products by slapping a pretty face - real or digital - on the game boxes.

How do you get off letting two estates go free (one you're a member of and the other your mother's milk) and instead you decide to go after those "cowardly losers on the internet"? It baffles me... wait, no it doesn't because one doesn't give a shit about internal consistency when they're out for blood .

On the plus side, this whole mess let me find out that Chugworth Academy came back online. Yay!

[NiX]

I just beat this game 2 days ago. I'm planning a trip to their Montreal office. I've also frozen my shit in a Tupperware container to show them my gratitude for that ending.

[Azazel]

What's funny is apparently the lady whose entire journalistic career was founded on doing things with a Rez Trance Vibrator has spoken out in whatsherface's defense.
OOokay!

who?

Jane Pinckard.

Oh yes, now I understand. I read that article back at the time. Linked from here or PA or something.

[geldonyetich2]

I've also frozen my shit in a Tupperware container to show them my gratitude for that ending.

"Thanks for coming.  Just throw it in the pile over there."

[Nerf]

Were you guys able to unlock the other 2 laptops? (Head Dr's and Conf. room), I'm thinking maybe it had somthing to do with the flags.  I was only able to get access to the chicks one from the password pen left on the animus.

[NiX]

It has nothing to do with flags. The Dr's laptop is accessed by walking up behind him and stealing his pen. From his laptop you get access to the conference room one too.